Today I succeeded in donating blood for the first time in almost a year; is it due to indulging in blackstrap molasses on my oatmeal? (3 or 4 attempts in a row I was just a little too low in red blood cell count, not to worry they said, but I discussed it at my annual physical last month and got bloodwork done that didn't show anything remarkable ( Read more... )

Yesterday as I took my damp laundry out to hang in the amazing sun, I heard and saw an adult robin thrashing around in the woodshed (which has an open doorway facing the back steps). My first thought was to give it space, and surely it would fly out this large door. But then I saw it was tethered! The pull-string from a bag of animal feed or ( Read more... )

I don't know, and I hope I don't have to deal with it. Oh yes I do know, "they did it 'cause we said no ( Read more... )

Friday I meant to go to work for a significant time, but the holiday feel, and the mellow sunlight... I worked for an hour & a half then went to my mentor's studio, to deliver some greenware, browse old NCECA post-conference publications, and check her library for books i was thinking of ordering ( Read more... )

I was going to swear off all cute & funky LJ stuff, especially while I'm days behind, but cakmpls led me into the Drama Generator:

I feel so annoyed! someone at work found out I was into cross-dressing and I think that's why I got fired :-(.

What sucks is that that bitter old queen kateyule gone and said that I got caught talking to dreamshark and backstabbing athenais. Don' ( Read more... )

I've been puttering around trying to figure out what's important or interesting to do, and appease the cat (many siamese-like wails, but she hadn't finished the 3 bowls of food I left out for her). I figured feeling cold meant I should go to bed, but then I sat down to offload my 150 photos, and found there are really 200 (in part because I ( Read more... )

Today was great. Yesterday involved too much sitting in traffic in van or bus. But today a great huckster's room and demonstrations. I was thinking I should call Jon Singer's cellphone this evening if I didn't find him, but then I did run into him in the (excuse me) vendors' area, and following him around for a while paid off well, although I did ( Read more... )

Here I am fiddling with my earrings instead of packing.


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It didn't go the way I planned; no bicycles for one thing.
Here's another chance at the pictures, and I think the links are fixed, but anyway we'll move right along.



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Thanks to a friend I did get the Abridged Messiah CD back today;


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